Avi Sharon

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Avi Sharon
Occupation
  • Poet
  • professor
  • translator
  • consultant
NationalityAmerican
Education Emory University
Boston University (PhD)
Notable awards Harold Morton Landon Translation Award (2009)
Children2

Avi Sharon is a professor of classics, translator and consultant.

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Life

He graduated from Emory University, and Boston University, with a Ph.D. in classics, where he studied under Donald Carne-Ross and William Arrowsmith.

His work has appeared in Arion, [1] Partisan Review, Waves, [2] Journal of Modern Greek Studies, [3] Kenyon Review, [4] Yale Review, [5] and International Quarterly.

He works on Wall Street, [6] and lives in Brooklyn, with his wife and two sons. [7]

Awards

Works

Translations

Anthologies

Criticism

Reviews

Sharon has achieved an excellent balance, and certainly more so than other editors. More advanced and extensive bibliographies, introductions and/or notes, however, are to be found in the Oxford World's Classics edition of Waterfield, in the SUNY edition of Cobb, and in the Hackett edition. The translation also compares well to its competitors.... [9]

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References

  1. "Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics". Archived from the original on 2009-10-22. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
  2. "Waves Content". Archived from the original on 2009-04-19. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
  3. Sharon, Avi (2001). "The Drama of Quality: Selected Essays (review)". Journal of Modern Greek Studies. 19 (1): 173–178. doi:10.1353/mgs.2001.0010. S2CID   143890679. Project MUSE   21935.[ non-primary source needed ]
  4. "The Kenyon Review". Archived from the original on 2008-11-22. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
  5. Sharon, Avi (January 2000). "Turning Point: A Year in the Seferis‐Katsimbalis Correspondence". The Yale Review. 88 (1): 44–62. doi:10.1111/0044-0124.00361.[ non-primary source needed ]
  6. "BDS Consulting Group, New York, has merged with The Clearview Group. (Flash! Frozen)", Frozen Food Age, March 1, 2006
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-04-07. Retrieved 2009-06-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. "Translation Prize Winners Announced | Society of Authors - Protecting the rights and furthering the interests of authors". Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2013-07-22.
  9. Beau David Case (1999-03-06). "Avi Sharon (trans.), Plato's Symposium. Focus Philosophical Library". Bryn Mawr Classical Review.